sarge + kernel 2.6.0 test9 and lsmod problem

lsmod is reporting the below under kernel 2.6.0test9 The kernel is running on a sarge box that is updated for all packages as of 11/18/2003 @ 12:50AM what is QM_Modules? what does this mean? is there a fix? thank you. =>lsmod Module Size Used byNot tainted lsmod: QM_MODU

Re: Asus A7N8X Deluxe and Debian?

Josh McKinney wrote: I have been using a A7N8X Deluxe with Debian for about a month now and have been extremely happy with it. One thing to remember is to boot with "noapic nolapic" kernel parameters. Do some googling if you want to know more. I have been using the forcedeth driver for a week n

Re: pasting into vi inserts many indents

On Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 12:27:33PM -0800, Brian wrote: > Hi, > Lately, if I open a file with vi from inside a gnome-terminal and then > select a large chunk of text, (it doesn't matter where, e.g., Mozilla or > the same vi session, both do it), it corrupts the formatting with many > indents. The p

Uninterruptible Sleep

Hey folks, One of our users has a few processes that are refusing to die - according to /proc, they all have open file descriptors to his mailbox, and are all listed as being in the uninterruptible sleep mode. I assume that they are all stuck in I/O wait on that file for some reason - at any rate

Any luck with Netgear MA521 (Realtek RTL8180L)?

I'm trying to get a new Netgear MA521 802.11b card working in Woody. According to what I've read, this card uses the Realtek RTL 8180L chipset and some have apparently had success with it in various distros. (The Linksys WPC11v.4 is supposed to have the same chipset.) Object-code drivers with op

Re: OT, proper phone wire question?

On Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 03:36:57PM -0500, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: > On Mon, Nov 17, 2003 at 07:59:08PM -0500, lee wrote: > | Sorry to get off topic but I need to re-wire my DSL connection at home here > | and need to buy some phone wire and am curious if there is a good/better/best > | type

Re: Asus A7N8X Deluxe and Debian?

On approximately Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 11:50:04PM -0500, Roberto Sanchez wrote: > Scarletdown wrote: > >Has anyone here managed to successfully get Debian > >working on an A7N8X Deluxe > >motherboard? I especially need to make sure that both > >on-board NICs (nVidia nForce MCP > >and 3Com 3C920B-

Re: *plonk* Re: Code of Conduct (was Re: Totally [OT] Re: Opium)

On Wed, 19 Nov 2003 04:49:14 +, ben wrote: > > On Tue, 18 Nov 2003 13:23:48 +0800 > csj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Mon, 17 Nov 2003 19:54:17 -0800, > > Karsten M. Self wrote: > > > > > > on Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 09:19:48AM +0800, csj ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > > On Mon, 17 Nov

Re: Which X packages? (was X 4.3.0)

On Tue, 2003-11-18 at 18:27, Bill Moseley wrote: > Ok, I'm confused. > > I want to upgrade to X 4.3.0. I don't run xdm, so I don't think I need > "x-window-system". > > Just by following links on the pacakges.debian.org site, I see this > dependecny tree: > > x-window-system > x-win

Re: Asus A7N8X Deluxe and Debian?

Scarletdown wrote: Has anyone here managed to successfully get Debian working on an A7N8X Deluxe motherboard? I especially need to make sure that both on-board NICs (nVidia nForce MCP and 3Com 3C920B-EMB), and the on-board sound (nVidia nForce) will work. Go to the nVidia site and download the

Re: Trying to get modem to work with Debian

On Tue, 18 Nov 2003 21:35:24 -0500 ScruLoose <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 08:09:01PM -0500, JAMES MERRITT wrote: > > (Please set your linewraps to something between 72 and 80 chars) > > > I have a US Robotics USR5699B PCI modem and I am trying to get it > > installed unde

Re: messenger

On Wed, 19 Nov 2003 at 03:58 GMT, Robert L. Harris penned: > > Gaim is great if you like GUI (set it up for my wife) but I use "naim" > which is also very configurable once you learn to use it. Centericq is a very powerful curses-based messenger client, though it requires a few too many keystroke

Re: Trying to get modem to work with Debian

ScruLoose wrote: On Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 08:09:01PM -0500, JAMES MERRITT wrote: (Please set your linewraps to something between 72 and 80 chars) I have a US Robotics USR5699B PCI modem and I am trying to get it installed under Debian Woody. According to Windows, it is installed on COM5, IRQ 11.

Asus A7N8X Deluxe and Debian?

Has anyone here managed to successfully get Debian working on an A7N8X Deluxe motherboard? I especially need to make sure that both on-board NICs (nVidia nForce MCP and 3Com 3C920B-EMB), and the on-board sound (nVidia nForce) will work. The nForce Drivers CD that came with my board has Red Hat

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what data error

Re: Debian Users...

Thus spake Yves Rutschle ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > On Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 03:19:46PM -0500, Ryan M. Golbeck wrote: > > apt-get install ratpoison > > ratpoison looks interesting (I never actually tried it, > because I ran into ION first and fell in love). > > The idea of only having one, full-scree

emacs -nw and emacsclient

hey folks, I use emacs as my main text editor, but vastly prefer to run emacs in an xterm (emacs -nw) over xemacs (xemacs is quite ugly, to the point of unreadability, as currently configured on my machine; and also I often write mail via ssh with X forwarding enabled, so if Xemacs starts up in th

Re: Exim

Daniel Schömer wrote: * Stephen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Daniel Schömer wrote: Stephen wrote in article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: How does one configure Exim (Woody) to work with smarthost using AUTH PLAIN? Is the pwd/log supposed to be entered in the exim.cnf file? I've tried what has been suggested i

Re: messenger

Gaim is great if you like GUI (set it up for my wife) but I use "naim" which is also very configurable once you learn to use it. Thus spake Alex Malinovich ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > On Tue, 2003-11-18 at 09:02, Paul Valley wrote: > > could some one recomend a very easy to setup insent messenger th

Re: ISP and DNS port scanning!

> On Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 10:50:02PM +, Antony Gelberg wrote:   > >Looks like a ping (ICMP type 8).  Where do you get port scanning from? > >FWIW, I think that blocking pings via a firewall isn't recommended, but > >not sure why. Jon wrote: > It does not provide any kind of security or protec

Re: messenger

On Tue, 2003-11-18 at 09:02, Paul Valley wrote: > could some one recomend a very easy to setup insent messenger that would > work with yahoo i dont like to compile things so if its in dpkg ill take it apt-get install gaim It supports Yahoo, MSN, AIM, ICQ, and more. -- Alex Malinovich Support F

Re: *plonk* Re: Code of Conduct (was Re: Totally [OT] Re: Opium)

On Tue, 18 Nov 2003 13:23:48 +0800 csj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 17 Nov 2003 19:54:17 -0800, > Karsten M. Self wrote: > > > > on Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 09:19:48AM +0800, csj ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > On Mon, 17 Nov 2003 08:48:14 -0800, > > > Karsten M. Self wrote: > > > > > > [..

RE:

WHAT

messenger

could some one recomend a very easy to setup insent messenger that would work with yahoo i dont like to compile things so if its in dpkg ill take it also any thoughts on where i can setup my sound card? Paul -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Troub

RE: Scripting Manuals

> -Original Message- > From: Anil Gupte [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, 19 November 2003 11:29 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Scripting Manuals > > > Where can I find some good scripting manuals that will teach > me (a newbie) to write bash shell scripts? > > Thanx

Re: Scripting Manuals

On Tue, 18 Nov 2003 18:15:30 -0600, Anil Gupte wrote: > > Where can I find some good scripting manuals that will teach me > (a newbie) to write bash shell scripts? http://www.shelldorado.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAI

Re: Trying to get modem to work with Debian

On Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 08:09:01PM -0500, JAMES MERRITT wrote: (Please set your linewraps to something between 72 and 80 chars) > I have a US Robotics USR5699B PCI modem and I am trying to get it > installed under Debian Woody. According to Windows, it is installed > on COM5, IRQ 11. > > Under

Re: A idea for newbies.

- Original Message - From: "David Palmer." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, November 18, 2003 16:19 Subject: Re: A idea for newbies. > On Tue, 18 Nov 2003 10:39:03 -0600 > "Hoyt Bailey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > If you have a machine that is newer than "

Re: Trying to get modem to work with Debian

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 18 November 2003 04:09 pm, JAMES MERRITT wrote: > Hi all, > > I have a US Robotics USR5699B PCI modem and I am trying to get it > installed under Debian Woody. According to Windows, it is installed > on COM5, IRQ 11. > > Under Debian, I had

kmod: runaway modprobe loop assumed and stopped

how I determine what module is causing this problem? I see net-pf-10 listed in the 20031118.log a log, but I haven't been able to figure out what module that is let alone what has caused this issue recently. Any help would be appreciated. Rob -- | LI

Re: Scripting Manuals

On Tue, 18 Nov 2003 16:47:39 -0800 shawn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 06:15:30PM -0600, Anil Gupte wrote: > > Where can I find some good scripting manuals that will teach me (a newbie) > > to write bash shell scripts? > the advanced bash scripting guide (assumes no pr

Re: sarge net.iso

- Original Message - Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > > Because of previous posts that the "stable" sarge netiso was not booting > I downloaded the 11/15 version on Sunday. > > Very fast server: could do it easy on my 56kb line. > > It boots. I'm not sure what you mean by "stable" sarge, but

Re: missing package for kdebase?

Hi, * Robert L. Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [031119 09:55]: > > > Due to a hard disk failure I am stuck rebuilding my wife's machine. > So far it's going great and the box is up and 90% there. All that's > left is installing kdebase + some support packages. When I try to > install kdebase I g

Re: missing package for kdebase?

* Robert L. Harris ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > Due to a hard disk failure I am stuck rebuilding my wife's machine. > So far it's going great and the box is up and 90% there. All that's > left is installing kdebase + some support packages. When I try to > install kdebase I get some errors

Re: Scripting Manuals

On Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 04:47:39PM -0800, shawn wrote: > On Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 06:15:30PM -0600, Anil Gupte wrote: > > Where can I find some good scripting manuals that will teach me (a newbie) > > to write bash shell scripts? > the advanced bash scripting guide (assumes no previous >

Trying to get modem to work with Debian

Hi all, I have a US Robotics USR5699B PCI modem and I am trying to get it installed under Debian Woody. According to Windows, it is installed on COM5, IRQ 11. Under Debian, I had to create the com port as ttyS5, then use setserial /dev/ttyS5 irq 11. Then I tried using wvdial and that does not

Re: Screenshots in Linux?

On Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 12:42:20AM +, Joseph Jones wrote: > How do you take a screenshot in Linux? Preferably from the terminal and > of the whole screen. http://www.troubleshooters.com/linux/scrshot.htm Gimp -> File -> Acquire -> Screenshot ksnapshot -> new snapshot import -window root scree

missing package for kdebase?

Due to a hard disk failure I am stuck rebuilding my wife's machine. So far it's going great and the box is up and 90% there. All that's left is installing kdebase + some support packages. When I try to install kdebase I get some errors saying it needs ksysguard, ksysguardd and libsensors-1deb

Re: Scripting Manuals

On Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 06:15:30PM -0600, Anil Gupte wrote: > Where can I find some good scripting manuals that will teach me (a newbie) > to write bash shell scripts? the advanced bash scripting guide (assumes no previous scripting experience). http://www.tldp.org/LDP/abs/h

Re: ISP and DNS port scanning!

On Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 10:50:02PM +, Antony Gelberg wrote: > Looks like a ping (ICMP type 8). Where do you get port scanning from? > FWIW, I think that blocking pings via a firewall isn't recommended, but > not sure why. It does not provide any kind of security or protection what-so-ever,

Samba log

How can I see who delete the file?   Thanks

Screenshots in Linux?

How do you take a screenshot in Linux? Preferably from the terminal and of the whole screen. Joe -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: how can I change the language from the prompt(loadkeys doesn't work)

Well Ben...Mr. Venacular...the machine Requires that you use a japanese encoding set and language. Try downloading the debian japanese rescue iso(http://ftp.jp.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/disks-i386/current/ima ges-1.44/rescue.bin) See how far your machine boots. I wouldn't be go to such g

Scripting Manuals

Where can I find some good scripting manuals that will teach me (a newbie) to write bash shell scripts? Thanx for any pointers. Anil Gupte -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Disc Systems.

Hello, I've mentioned this one before, but I've just come across the link again, so I thought I would forward it to the list for those that may be interested in this sort of thing. http://www.gnoppix.org/ Regards, David. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsu

Re: ATA Controller

Linux wrote: Greetings all. I have a second IDE controller card installed in my system and am trying to get it to work under debian. Things that may be relevant: hda - 15g HD hdb - 20g HD hdc - cdrom hdd - cdburner and on the second controller hde - 30g HD hde is reiserfs and is operational unde

xfree86 failure: mga_hal missing

I have a very annoying problem with my XFree86 set up today. I'm trying to get an installation from -testing and selected the x-window-server to bring everything in. No errors during installation. No errors when I log in as 'root' However, when I log in as a non-root user, it fails and I'm back

Re: instaleren op 486 met 128 mb hd

On Mon, 17 Nov 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > ((translation ambuguity here -- is evt a package or an abbreviation for the > Dutch word "eventueel"? -- which means something between "eventual", > "possible", and "expected". "Eventueel" is what was meant in this case. > > sorry, e. tijseling, it

Re: OT, proper phone wire question?

Alex Malinovich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm not sure if this is really proper or not, but I've been noticing a > lot of newer houses using regular old CAT 5 twisted-pair cable for phone > cable. The house I lived in as an undergrad just did renovations, and now each of the rooms has two cat

Re: pasting into vi inserts many indents

Jonathan Dowland wrote: On Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 02:04:57PM -0800, Erik Steffl wrote: if you run gvim you can paste using mouse (middle button), it doesn't do autoindenting then erik You can paste in console-vims, too, depending on your terminal, by setting mouse=a . However I have the inde

Re: 3c509 NIC Not Supported under Knoppix?

> After Knoppix has loaded, have you tried manually probing the 3c509 > driver(s)? > That fixed it. Had to SU to root, then run modprobe 3c509 irq=10. After that, netcardconfig detected the NIC and it was configured painlessly. Thanks. __ Do you Yahoo!? Prot

Re: kernel-source-2.6.0-test9 & linux-wlan-ng Problem

On Thu, Nov 13, 2003 at 08:44:14AM +, Sam Bashton wrote: > On Thu, Nov 13, 2003 at 01:53:05AM -0500, Thomas H. George wrote: > > I compiled a new kernel from kernel-source-2.6.0-test9 and, after > > installing module-init-tools, most of my modules are loaded and working > > except for my pci

Re: Which X packages? (was X 4.3.0)

Ok, I'm confused. I want to upgrade to X 4.3.0. I don't run xdm, so I don't think I need "x-window-system". Just by following links on the pacakges.debian.org site, I see this dependecny tree: x-window-system x-window-system-core xserver-xfree86 xserver-c

Re: 3c509 NIC Not Supported under Knoppix?

Hi There, > This may seem like a weird question, but is the 3Com > EtherLink III (3c509) ISA NIC not > supported under Knoppix? I diagnosed a very strange error with one of these cards last night. Essentially, there seemed to be some type of hardware inconsistency that caused the card to decide

Re: integrated spell check for vim

Emma Jane Hogbin wrote: Is there an quasi intelligent way of spell checking files from within vim? Give vimspell a whirl. Hit and do a search on vimspell in the scripts section. -- Steve C. Lamb | I'm your priest, I'm your shrink, I'm your PGP Ke

integrated spell check for vim

Is there an quasi intelligent way of spell checking files from within vim? I'm looking for the ability to: - ignore tags (or possibly even tell me if a tag is not part of a DTD, but one thing at a time) - set the dictionary (e.g. UK or US English) I typically spell check

Re: 3c509 NIC Not Supported under Knoppix?

On 18 Nov 2003 at 17:57, Alexander Winston wrote: > > Just a note: Things supported in Debian might not be supported in > Knoppix and vice versa. They are very different distributions, so things > often vary between the two. > Still, it seems rather strange that the 3c509 wouldn't be supported

Re: ISP and DNS port scanning!

On Tue, 18 Nov 2003 22:50:02 + Antony Gelberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 03:43:15PM -0600, Rthoreau wrote: > > Hello: fellow Debian users > > > > I was going over my router logs and noticed that I am getting port > > scanned from my ISP, this has been happening for

Kde Apps and UTF-8

I tried to fix this one for the last weeks, but haven't got anywhere. I have a display-related problem with utf-8; I am running Debian Sid, XFree 4.2, freetype2 and KDE 3.1.4 (LANG=it_IT.UTF-8), and every kde application does not handle well a subset of utf-8 characters. While accented, greek or e

Re: Please, no GUI boot.

On Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 08:51:12PM +1300, cr wrote: > From this thread it looks like I can safely lose xdm... but an explicit > option to do so would be reassuring. you can - but you shouldn't have to, just to stop it from being the default display manager. -- Jon Dowland http://jon.dowland

Re: A idea for newbies.

On Tue, 18 Nov 2003 10:39:03 -0600 "Hoyt Bailey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If you have a machine that is newer than "Woody" you may run into > difficulties that you cant solve. This list is a great help but it > takes time. After spending a couple of weeks resolving X wont boot > and Modem wo

Re: 3c509 NIC Not Supported under Knoppix?

On Tue, 2003-11-18 at 17:43, Scarletdown wrote: > This may seem like a weird question, but is the 3Com > EtherLink III (3c509) ISA NIC not > supported under Knoppix? I just booted up my hardware > testing system, which uses a 3c905, > and Knoppix failed to detect the NIC. I know this > card wor

Re: ls and directories only

On Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 03:44:41PM -0500, Wayne Topa wrote: > alias lsd='ls -d */' > NOTE: This has nothing to do the the Opium Thread!! I was thinking about sensible aliases, and I came to the same conclusion :-) -- Jon Dowland http://jon.dowland.name/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL P

Re: pasting into vi inserts many indents

On Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 02:04:57PM -0800, Erik Steffl wrote: > if you run gvim you can paste using mouse (middle button), it doesn't > do autoindenting then > > erik You can paste in console-vims, too, depending on your terminal, by setting mouse=a . However I have the indent-problem w

Re: ISP and DNS port scanning!

On Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 03:43:15PM -0600, Rthoreau wrote: > Hello: fellow Debian users > > I was going over my router logs and noticed that I am getting port scanned > from my ISP, this has been happening for a while but I haven't had the time > to look into it untill now. I did a basic whois

Mimail Virus.

Hello, Just saw this in Eweek, so I thought that I would forward it to the list. http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,4149,1383915,00.asp Regards, David. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

3c509 NIC Not Supported under Knoppix?

This may seem like a weird question, but is the 3Com EtherLink III (3c509) ISA NIC not supported under Knoppix? I just booted up my hardware testing system, which uses a 3c905, and Knoppix failed to detect the NIC. I know this card works, because I also have Win-98SE on this same system, as we

Re: configuring dial on demand ppp

Oliver Elphick writes: > The package you need for automatic dial on demand is diald. Ppp is quite sufficient for most purposes. Pppd supports dial-on-demand. Run pppconfig, select "Advanced", and select "Demand". -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, Wisconsin -- To UNS

Re: Which backup prog? - load

On Tue, 18 Nov 2003, Jeffrey L. Taylor wrote: > I am backing up a Linux workstation/server, two Linux servers, a Linux > laptop, and a Windows 98 desktop over a 100Mbps Ethernet network to a > Seagate TR-5 (AKA NS20) IDE Travan drive. Full backups take 3-3.5 > hours and take one tape (i.e., run

Re: *plonk* Re: Code of Conduct (was Re: Totally [OT] Re: Opium)

On Tue, 18 Nov 2003 15:27:44 -0500, Wayne Topa wrote: > > csj([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > > On Mon, 17 Nov 2003 19:54:17 -0800, > > Karsten M. Self wrote: > > > > > > on Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 09:19:48AM +0800, csj ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > > On Mon, 17 Nov 2003 08:48:14 -

Re: pasting into vi inserts many indents

Justin Guerin wrote: On Tuesday 18 November 2003 01:27 pm, Brian wrote: Hi, Lately, if I open a file with vi from inside a gnome-terminal and then select a large chunk of text, (it doesn't matter where, e.g., Mozilla or the same vi session, both do it), it corrupts the formatting with many indents

Re: configuring dial on demand ppp

On Tue, 2003-11-18 at 21:33, Nathan wrote: > I recently appointed myself computer person at the local teen center. > Unfortunately, things aren't going as well as I would like. I've managed > to configure so that the modem will now dial in and send the password, > but things still die off before th

ISP and DNS port scanning!

Hello: fellow Debian users I was going over my router logs and noticed that I am getting port scanned from my ISP, this has been happening for a while but I haven't had the time to look into it untill now. I did a basic whois on the IP address and they show that it is my ISP, the destination

Re: pasting into vi inserts many indents

On Tuesday 18 November 2003 01:27 pm, Brian wrote: > Hi, > Lately, if I open a file with vi from inside a gnome-terminal and then > select a large chunk of text, (it doesn't matter where, e.g., Mozilla or > the same vi session, both do it), it corrupts the formatting with many > indents. The paste

Re: pasting into vi inserts many indents

* Brian ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi, > Lately, if I open a file with vi from inside a gnome-terminal and then > select a large chunk of text, (it doesn't matter where, e.g., Mozilla or > the same vi session, both do it), it corrupts the formatting with many > indents. The pasted output inserts

Re: pasting into vi inserts many indents

Brian wrote: Lately, if I open a file with vi from inside a gnome-terminal and then select a large chunk of text, (it doesn't matter where, e.g., Mozilla or the same vi session, both do it), it corrupts the formatting with many indents. The pasted output inserts more indents on each line than ther

Re: OT, proper phone wire question?

lee wrote: Sorry to get off topic but I need to re-wire my DSL connection at home here and need to buy some phone wire and am curious if there is a good/better/best type of wire I should purchase..will be a direct run to my modem going about 100' or so from my box.. Here's a link on cable types:

Re: Best way to start exim4?

> I'm wondering which is the best way to start exim4. I'm fetching my mail > from my ISP with fetchmail manually with a script because I only want to > do it when I am connected to internet. > > As I see it there are 3 alternatives, but if anybody can come up with a > 4:th please tell me. > > 1) S

configuring dial on demand ppp

I recently appointed myself computer person at the local teen center. Unfortunately, things aren't going as well as I would like. I've managed to configure so that the modem will now dial in and send the password, but things still die off before the line is fully up. My vision is a setup in which

What is the maximal length of usernames supported by Linux?

Dear all, is there any restriction in size for the usernames of passwd? man getpwent provides the passwd structure struct passwd { char*pw_name; /* user name */ char*pw_passwd; /* user password */ uid_t pw_uid; /* user

pasting into vi inserts many indents

Hi, Lately, if I open a file with vi from inside a gnome-terminal and then select a large chunk of text, (it doesn't matter where, e.g., Mozilla or the same vi session, both do it), it corrupts the formatting with many indents. The pasted output inserts more indents on each line than there were on

Question about Sarge GUI

I've been investigating moving from Woody to Sarge, and I have a problem. I got Sarge running by doing a dist-upgrade from Woody. Some of my GUI, came through the upgrade just fine, but for other things there were font size changes. This is not, in itself, a serious problem, *but* I can't figure ou

Re: Best way to start exim4?

On Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 08:58:49PM +0100, Jimmy Johansson wrote: > On Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 10:41:40AM -0800, Bill Moseley wrote: > > On Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 04:20:27PM +0100, Jimmy Johansson wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > I'm wondering which is the best way to start exim4. I'm fetching my mail > > >

Re: OT, proper phone wire question?

On Tuesday 18 November 2003 01:59, lee wrote: > Sorry to get off topic but I need to re-wire my DSL connection at > home here and need to buy some phone wire and am curious if there is > a good/better/best type of wire I should purchase..will be a direct > run to my modem going about 100' or so fro

Re: unsubscribe

On Tue, 2003-11-18 at 13:46, L.F. wrote: > I have sent at least five e-mails to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > just saying: unsubscribe and I keep receiving hundreds of e-mails. Do they > send me an e-mail to confirm that it is true? I have read that you have to > send the e-mail from the same computer th

ALSA card detected, but volume level is decreasing to 0 again and again??!!

Hello, I'm wondering if this is a known bug, it's hard to search for in google and elsewhere (alsa-users archives). I have a 2.6.0-test9, my ESS1868 is detected fine: --> pnp: Device 01:01.00 activated. ALSA sound/isa/es18xx.c:1990: pnp: port=0x800 pnp: Device 01:01.01 activated. ALSA sound/isa/

Re: OT, proper phone wire question?

On Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 03:36:57PM -0500, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: | On Mon, Nov 17, 2003 at 07:59:08PM -0500, lee wrote: | | Sorry to get off topic but I need to re-wire my DSL connection at | | home here and need to buy some phone wire and am curious if there | | is a good/better/best type of

Re: ls and directories only

Lynn W([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > I know this must be a silly question, but I have tried looking at the man and the > --help and could not find it: > > How does one use the ls command to display just the directories' names, and suppress > those which are not directories? In M

Re: *plonk* Re: Code of Conduct (was Re: Totally [OT] Re: Opium)

csj([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > On Mon, 17 Nov 2003 19:54:17 -0800, > Karsten M. Self wrote: > > > > on Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 09:19:48AM +0800, csj ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > On Mon, 17 Nov 2003 08:48:14 -0800, > > > Karsten M. Self wrote: > > > > > > [...] > > > > > > >

Re: ATA Controller

>Adrian at Linux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >scribbled on Date: Today 09:03:14 >Greetings all.  I have a second IDE controller card installed in my >system and am trying to get it to work under debian. > >Things that may be relevant: > >hda - 15g HD >hdb - 20g HD >hdc - cdrom >hdd - cdburner >and on the

Re: OT, proper phone wire question?

On Mon, Nov 17, 2003 at 07:59:08PM -0500, lee wrote: | Sorry to get off topic but I need to re-wire my DSL connection at home here | and need to buy some phone wire and am curious if there is a good/better/best | type of wire I should purchase..will be a direct run to my modem going about | 100'

Re: Bug #220623: LVM and devfs

On Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 11:06:23AM -0500, Sven Heinicke wrote: | | To get te the point, how ho I change an i686 3.0r1 system with | proposed-updates and the 2.4.22-2-686-smp kernel to be devfs? I would | be most happy with pointers to Linux general documentation on how to | this. Compile a kerne

building new server, hardware ideas?

Hi ppl, I'm going to build a new server for a small company that are going to sell music and have a very tight budget. But I'm not going to sacrifice stability and performance. -Easy? Alrigt, normaly I build them on Redhat since there most vendors of disc controllers, net dito and so on are only

Re: Best way to start exim4?

On Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 10:41:40AM -0800, Bill Moseley wrote: > On Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 04:20:27PM +0100, Jimmy Johansson wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I'm wondering which is the best way to start exim4. I'm fetching my mail > > from my ISP with fetchmail manually with a script because I only want to > >

Re: OT, proper phone wire question?

On Mon, 2003-11-17 at 18:59, lee wrote: > Sorry to get off topic but I need to re-wire my DSL connection at home here > and need to buy some phone wire and am curious if there is a good/better/best > type of wire I should purchase..will be a direct run to my modem going about > 100' or so from m

Re: ls and directories only

On Tue, 2003-11-18 at 10:32, Lynn W wrote: > I know this must be a silly question, but I have tried looking at the man and the > --help and could not find it: > > How does one use the ls command to display just the directories' names, and suppress > those which are not directories? In MS-DOS, it

Re: .forward - filter on cc?

On Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 10:36:58AM -0500, BruceG wrote: > Think I have my .forward working MUCH better. No duplicates, going in > proper directories based on $header_to: Next question is, can you filter > on cc:'s? I need to move the cc:'s into the proper directory as well. I suggest fil

Re: Integrated Broadcom nic on Dell times out with dhcp

Pete Harlan wrote: and get a DHCP address, but the network remains broken with errors such as: b44: eth0: Link is down b44: eth0: Link is up at 10 Mbps, half duplex. b44: eth0: Flow control is off for TX and off for RX. [...] Using the default interface 'eth0'. Basic registers of MII PHY

Re: Debian packages of 7.4

On Tue, 2003-11-18 at 18:36, Bill Moseley wrote: > On Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 12:14:45PM +, Oliver Elphick wrote: > > > Debian users wishing to install the new PostgreSQL packages should add > > experimental to their apt/sources.list and use the -t option to apt-get. > > What specific sources sh

Re: ls and directories only

"Lynn W" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Thanks, but how do I use > find -maxdepth 1 -type d > to just display the directories in the current directory, and not to > recurse into subdirectories, *and* to display all the directories' > permissions? I'd chant something like find . -name . -o -

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